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CLEAN Grass-Fed, Goat Milk Protein

Mt. Capra’s clean, grass-fed, goat milk protein encompasses everything that a clean food should be; no sweeteners, no flavors, no gums, no stevia, no hormones, no GMO’s, no chemicals, you get the idea. View Details

Capra Cream Goat Milk Cream Flakes

Capra Cream™ starts as fresh goat milk harvested from our happy goats on our farm in the Pacific Northwest. A mechanical cream separator extracts the cream from the milk using no chemicals. We dry this concentrated cream using minimal heat and refracted light to provide a shelf-stable, wholesome, and delicious goat milk cream!View Details

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What are ORAC values?

What are ORAC values?ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It’s a lab test that attempts to quantify the “total antioxidant capacity” (TAC) of a food by placing a sample of the food in a test tube, along with certain molecules that generate free radical activity and certain other molecules that are vulnerable to oxidation . After a while, they measure how well the sample protected the vulnerable molecules from oxidation by the free radicals. The less free radical damage there is, the higher the antioxidant capacity of the test substance. There are actually a handful of different tests designed to measure total antioxidant capacity in this way, but the ORAC is probably the best known and most popular.

The nice thing about this method is that it measures the antioxidant activity of a food rather than the levels of specific nutrients, such as vitamin C or E. After all, there are thousands of unique antioxidant compounds in plants, most of which we haven’t even discovered yet. There’s no way we could measure them all individually. This approach would also capture any synergistic effects between the various nutrients—ways in which nutrients are more effective in combination than they are individually.

Where to Find ORAC ValuesThe lab that developed one of these tests has measured the ORAC values in hundreds of foods and spices and published those values in a database, which you can find online. Some of the results might surprise you. And, some of the results are a bit misleading. For example, you’ll find spices like cinnamon and cloves with 6-digit ORAC values. However, all of the ORAC scores refer to 100-gram servings. Once you convert these into the amounts you’d typically consume in a meal, cinnamon and cloves are comparable to the antioxidant activity of small apple or pear.